HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-01-20, Page 10' The Wingham
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Through Town
Traffic Troubles
A fellow told us the other day, and
in all seriousness, too, that he’d
rather drive in the city traffic than
tajce his car down Josephine Street.
We chuckled to ourselves, but refrain
ed from saying anything impolite. Be
ing an old hand at city driving, we
thought we’d better leave him with
his illusions.
A lot of people think that city driv
ing’s a cinch. They go to the city for
a long week-end, and being naturally
clear-eyed, clean-living, quick-think
ing and staedy nerved types, they man
age to get along fine. Maybe they
even get back without a bumped fen
der, a traffic violation ticket or a
case of heebeejeebees. The exhilara
tion of having gone to Toronto, driv
en around town for a week-end, and
returned without a scratch, gives
them the idea they’ve mastered city
driving. They don’t know the half of
it.
Driving around on a week-end
(when everybody’s out of town, any
how) is one thing. Driving around
every day of the week in the rush
hour periods is something else again.
Yes, indeed. Every time we used to
back the jalopy out of the garage (at
great risk of being hit in the rear
end by some harassed character late
for an appointment) we used to ask
ourselves, “Will we make it unscathed
again today?”
There are several things about city
driving that most people from the
great outside don’t seem to appreciate.
Starting and stopping, for instance.
At first they think it’s kind of fun.
Gives them a chance to show off their
expert gear shifting, too. Any fool
can change gears.
We used to change gears all right.
We used to go through no less than
seventeen intersections with stop
lights—all of them red, we’ll swear.
Not only that but we used to follow
the time-honored Toronto tradition of
sitting at the red light with the motor
screaming and the clutch almost out,
ready for the take-off. A block far
ther down the street at the best light
we’d come to a grinding stop a bare
two feet ahead of the pack—if we
were lucky. Try that a couple of times
a day, every day, and you’ll find it’s
hard on the nerves as well as the
clutch, brakes, transmission and auto
matic tail light.
Then there are complications about
city driving that the outsider doesn’t
realize. Take the “No Left Turn” signs.
These are annoying at any time, es
pecially if you have to go six blocks
out of your way to get back to where
you were going because you had for
gotten you couldn’t make a left turn
at that corner. At least the sign stated
clearly “No Left Turn” and there was
no gnawing doubts as to whether you
; ing the temptation and going straight
i" ^through.
; Other signs aren’t so simple. One
I that used to confuse us read “No Left
■ Turn 7.30 to 9,30 and 4.30 to 6.30, Sat
urdays 7,30 to 9.30 and 11.30 to 1,30."
The thing was so small you couldn’t
read.it until you were in the middle
of the interescction, and by the time
you had read the fine print, figured
out what it meant and calculated
what day of the week it was, you dis
covered that you’d left your watch at
home on the dresser table, and didn’t
know the time. The light had turned
red in the mean time anyhow, and
here were all these cars coming at
you full speed from both sides, honk
ing as they came. We used to have
nightmares about that one.
There are other hazards, too. If you
haven’t a pretty fine eye when it
comes to beating streetcars, you’re
liable to be pushed through the back
of the car parked at the other side
of the intersection under the “No
Parking” sign. You need second sight
when it comes to figuring out the
other fellow’s next move, or you’re
liable to come to grief passing a car
just after he has edged over to the
right to get a good run at that left
hand turn he wants to make. And if
you aren’t hep to the three and four
way traffic signals (they probably
have 5-way by now) you’re apt to get
into the path of the wrong traffic
lane and be crushed under the thun
dering herd. Or end up with a tall,
thin model, after passing between
two strcetcara
One thing we will say about city
driving, though. You learn fast. Be
fore you know it you’ve acquired the
knack of beating a stop light .either
orange or red. Weaving in and out of
traffic is something which sometimes
requires long years of practice to per
fect. However even the beginner can
try it if he has good brakes, a strong
constitution and public liability insur
ance. Jockeying for position at the
red light, in readiness for the take-off
is a fine art and require a quick eye
and a good deal of foresight.
However, we think that the test of
a good city driver is the way he hand
les his pedestrians. Needless to say
he does this with a firm hand on the
wheel and a firm foot on the acceler
ator. While discouraging at the out
set any attempt on the part of the
pedestrian to leave the pavement, the
good city driver is master of the sit
uation, even if they do leave the con
fines of the curb. He knows when to
speed up and when to slow down,
which is practically never. Approach
ing a pedestrian crossing he knows
instinctively which ones he can cow
and which frantic souls are apt to
fling themselves in front of his ve
hicle. A good city driver may scare
them to death, but he never hits his
pedestrian. You don’t learn all that
in a week-end. Us, we’d rather drive
on Josephine street if they triple
parked on both sides and had two
lanes of tractor trailers passing in
the middle. And sometimes it seems
like that.
Mrs.
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Women’s Institute
Ernest Gaunt opened her
home on Monday for the monthly
meeting of the Women's Institute,
when 20 Jadies were present. Mrs, E.
Barbour, the president, was in the
chair, and the roll call was well re
sponded to by “What health rule did
you emphasize to a child?” It was de
cided to charge 50c admission to fut
ure social eveings with ladies supply
ing lunch free.
There was a panel discussion re
garding a scholarship for 4H club
girls of Huron County with Mrs, Fred
McQuillin, Mrs, Jas. Curran, Mrs.
Harvey Webb and Mrs. E, W. Rice
taking part. Later a negative vote was
taken regarding participation in this
scholarship
Mrs. Barbour, Mrs Fred McQuillin
and Mrs. A, Gaunt were appointed to
interview the council in regard to the
community hall, Mrs Harvey Webb
had the motto on “A merry heart does
good like medicines,” and Mrs. Frank
McQuillin, convener of home Econom
ics and Health read an informative
article on “Cancer” and one on “Home-
lynch was served with Lloyd
Hunter and Mrs. Ross Gammie as
hostesses,
W. M, SR Annual Meeting
Thirteen ladles ’were in attendance
on Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Lome Woods for the annual
meeting of the W. M, S. and the W.
A. of the United Ghurch, Mrs, W. I,
Miller was in the chair for the W. M.
S. The treasr -er reported that ?182
had beep forwarded to the Presbyter-
ial treasurer for 1953, and the reports
of the secretary and the conveners
showed a successful year. Each of the
conveners read a short article regard
ing their department
Mrs, Jas. Curran had charge of the
W. A. meeting. The theme for the
year is “A Full Time Christian” and
that for this service was “The King
dom/* Mrs, Frank McQuillin read the
Scripture lesson and Mrs. Alex Mur-
die the lesson thoughts. The places of
meeting and the hostesses were ar
ranged for the year. The roll call was
responded to by the paying of fees. At
the conclusion lunch was served by
the hostesses, Miss W. D. Rutherford
and Mrs. T. J, Todd.
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